TV Server 1.0 RC1 Configuration

After installation of the Media Portal and TV Server 1.0 RC1 software, the system has to be configured. The first step I took is configuring TV Server, by clicking on the TV Server Configuration Icon on the desktop. It seems like TV Server Configuration needs administrator access, so click Allow when Windows Vista asks for it.

The first configuration step is the configuration of the database engine and the creation of the database:

In the Password box the password as provided during the installation (the default password is MediaPortal) should be entered here. Remember that the password is case sensitive! Pushing the test button will (when the password was entered correctly) show the following dialog:

And the boxes in the "Setup database connection" window will turn green:

Pressing Save will try to create the TV Server Database, but in my case it failed with the Error message "Failed to create the database" :

At first I could not find out why this was happening, so I decided to take a look at the windows log files by launching Event Viewer (type Event View in the Vista Start Menu):

This revealed that TV Server Configuration was trying to create a database that already existed (TvLibrary.mdf). I decided to manually delete the TvLibrary.mdf and associated TvLibrary_log.mdf file, and retry the Database creation by relaunching the TV Server Configuration tool. This worked, but now the system was complaining about the TV Server Service not running:

Just clicking Yes in this box, activated the Tv Service and the TV Server Configuration window was displayed on the screen. The first thing to do is scan for all the TV and Radio channels available on my cable connection. The nice thing is that with the new TV Server version 1.0 the country information file for @home digital TV in the South of The Netherlands is included in the installation, so I selected this one in the Country selection box. Pressing the Scan predefined provider box start the scan process. After completing the scan, the result is 148 TV Channels and 99 Radio channels, which is the same as last time, so it looks like this step went flawlessly:

Of course I want to include the Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) information from the digital channels, so I had to go to the TV Channels/TV Epg grabber settings part of the configuration:

For the time being I decided to select all channels, I can allways decide to remove channels that I'm not going to use.

The same has to be done for the Radio Channels:

The only thing left to do is make sure that TV Server is using the D-Drive to store it's recordings and time shifting files. The configuration for this is in the Recording settings section of the configuration tool:

That completes the configuration for now.

Time to start testing the Media Portal software, you will be able to read about that in the next posting.